Writing on the Move
Description
Travel writing appears to be the most oxymoronic of genres: the practice of writing and reading typically requires stasis, and travel writing emerges from movement. From the concurrent physical and emotional journeys of Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach to the instantaneous digital discourses of contemporary urban travellers, and from the challenges of writing in the extreme conditions of the Antarctic to those of updating guidebooks via Google Streetview, this book examines the tensions between actual journeys and their resultant texts. Writing on the Move asks questions about the meaning of 'movement' - and what counts as 'travel writing' - in an age of virtual journeying and enforced immobility.
More details
Persons
Samia Ounoughi is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at Université Grenoble Alpes. She is a member of LIDILEM and LABEX ITTEM where she works with geographers, cartographers, and historians. Her research deals with the relations between language and space, and she specialises in corpus discourse analysis of mountain travel writing. Publications include co-editing Exceptions and Exceptionality in Travel Writing with Anne-Florence Quaireau (2020) and Twenty-First Century Perspectives in British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies with Emmanuelle Peraldo (2025).
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Travel Writing and Movement
Samia Ounoughi and Tim Hannigan
Chapter 1. Figures in a Landscape: Movement, Stasis and the Travel Writer as Image Collector
Tim Hannigan
Chapter 2. Canoeing on the Waterways of Europe: Defining a Practice and a Genre through Robert Louis Stevenson's An Inland Voyage and Accounts of Other Travellers
Kévin Cristin
Chapter 3. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's Literary and Visual European Journeys: A 'Carnival by the Sea', and Many 'Quick Odysseys'
Elisabeth Bouzonviller
Chapter 4. Terror, Pity, Love: The Trials and Tribulations of Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Ella Maillart on the Road to Kabul
Julia Szoltysek
Chapter 5. The Novel at the End of the Road: The Soul Circuit of Jack Kerouac as a Professional Writer
Martin Wable
Chapter 6. 'A Strange Kind of Limbo': Navigating the Unknown in Contemporary Anglophone Female Travel Writing
Gemma Lake
Chapter 7. Writing from the Ice: An Examination of Contemporary Travel Writing in Antarctica
Kelly E. Hall
Chapter 8. Moving between Modes: Robert Macfarlane's and Kathleen Jamie's Journeys on Foot and in Time
Monika Kocot
Chapter 9. 'Did They Even Go There?': Virtual Experience and Projected Journeys in Contemporary Travel Guidebooks
Tim Hannigan
Chapter 10. Dialogue Journaling in Travel Writing Projects
Clarisse Chicot-Feindouno, Charles Mansfield and Mark Stothard
Conclusion. Writing on the Move: About and Beyond Travel Writing
Samia Ounoughi
Index
